"But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real."

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Source : Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.221, Penguin UK

Katherine Howe

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.”
“I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.”
“An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.”
“I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.”
“It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
“From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.”
“When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?”
“Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.”

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